After Tesla Employees Signed Letter Asking Elon Musk to Resign, at Least One Has Been Fired

Matthew LaBrot, a Tesla worker who created the website Tesla Employees Against Elon Musk, was fired from the institution 2 weeks ago. LaBrot claimed successful a LinkedIn station that helium was terminated for having created the site, and due to the fact that helium was portion of a larger radical of employees who publically asked Elon Musk to resign from the company. 

Tesla has faced respective crises this year—major recalls, declining sales, litigation, and a volatile stock price, to sanction a few. Sales of the cars declined for the archetypal clip successful much than a decennary successful 2024, and were down again by 13% successful the archetypal 4th of 2025. In Europe, the company’s troubles are particularly pronounced with a astir 50 percent income decline successful Germany past period and France seeing a akin 59 percent drop successful the aforesaid period. 

Tesla has blamed falling income connected the merchandise of a caller Model Y, the company’s best-selling model. On their Q1 2025 net telephone past month, the institution explained that determination simply weren’t “enough of the caller Model Y disposable successful astir markets” astatine the opening of the twelvemonth to marque a affirmative interaction connected sales. 

Not so, accidental the employees down the letter, who signed disconnected arsenic “Tesla Employees for a New Chapter.” They reason that Tesla’s troubles are not owed to missteps successful Model Y production, but alternatively to the nationalist estimation of the company’s polarizing CEO, Elon Musk. “Let’s beryllium clear: we are not the problem. Our products are not the problem. Our engineering, service, and transportation teams are not the problem. The occupation is demand. The occupation is Elon.” 

It’s worthy noting that Tesla itself made a akin connection connected its net telephone past month, conceding somewhat hilariously that “unwanted hostility towards our marque and our radical had an interaction [on sales] successful definite markets.”

This appraisal jibes with adept analysis, overmuch of which has blamed Tesla’s struggling income connected its CEO’s caller foray into right-wing politics. Last year, Musk donated astatine slightest $288 cardinal to assistance elite Donald Trump and different enactment candidates to office. And arsenic a peculiar advisor to President Trump, Musk has spent overmuch of his 2025 astatine the helm of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), location to the administration’s efforts to dramatically chopped (and falsely boast astir cutting) authorities spending. 

In aboriginal 2025, Musk’s information successful authorities sparked a grassroots protestation question called Tesla Takedown, which has rallied demonstrators astatine Tesla showrooms and charging stations astir the country. And portion it has since recovered immoderate losses, the company’s banal terms plummeted astatine the opening of the year. Through mid-March, the company’s stock terms had dropped by 38% since the opening of 2025. 

Amid unit from investors, Musk announced connected Tesla’s Q1 net telephone that he’d beryllium stepping backmost from his enactment successful Washington to walk much clip astatine the company. 

In their unfastened letter, Tesla Employees for a New Chapter called Musk’s determination “tone-deaf” and “insulting.” “It implies that the hardships of the past six months stem from a deficiency of his attention, not from his actions. It shifts the blasted onto the precise radical who person held this institution together,” they continued. 

According to his LinkedIn, LaBrot worked successful “Sales and Delivery Training” astatine Tesla and had been with the institution for much than 5 years earlier his dismissal.